Hi Pong,
You're welcome. I think if you follow my directions according to the photos I posted, it shouldn't take you more than 5 minutes brisk walk from Diana Dept. Store.
If you take a tuk-tuk to Nattaporn K&K, it's just round the back of the minimart.
What I know about Hatyai is that some ten years or so ago (I can't remember for sure) all the naughty places were supposed to be shifted to one place away from the main tourist stretch around the the big hotels. Some places got around the prohibition by becoming "barber shops" or "salons" with lady tonsorial experts but you could only make your bookings before 6pm, when they closed their premises.
A tuk-tuk driver took me to one of the boy bars (I can't remember which) a couple of years back, but it was the only one I actually saw along ThaiAkarn Road back then. I never managed to find it again after that.
It's taken me more than a year of patiently and discretely asking about here and there to find the sauna and bars. It would have been easier if I could have simply asked my aunt but I didn't necessarily want her to know I was plannng to have wild and uninhibited sex with other men the minute I left her house after dinner.
Incidentally, massage parlours were not included in the move to one red light district, and there are many along the main tourist areas. I have never availed myself of their services but from some things I heard people say - and a couple of male masseurs I saw - I gather it might be possible to book one of the male masseurs for an in-room massage at your hotel. I know there are no facilities for 'private massages' at the massage shops I see while walking along the streets. Friends of mine have booked masseuses for that purpose, I know.
Speaking of the male masseurs I saw this last trip, I noticed that all the shops had younger men with fairer skin, who looked almost Chinese, to provide no-hanky panky massage at the glass-fronted shops. I was told that they came from the north and could be booked for in-room massage, too - whatever that might mean.
I am afraid I did not investigate the range of their services as I prefer well-tanned Thai men. And as I did not have time to check out the bars at ThaiAkarn Road, I am afraid I can't say if there were more of these light-skinned guys at the gogo bars.
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